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The chicken shed is erected on three moso bamboos as thick as bowls, about one meter above the ground. Li Feng plans to use nets to block the surrounding areas, so as to prevent the chickens from being harmed by some animals. Li Feng plans to go to the market one day and order some old fishing nets.
Those fishing nets were mixed with thin wires, not to mention weasels, mice, hedgehogs, and foxes.
After unpacking the shed in the sky, Li Feng had almost completed the chicken coop for more than 30 chicks. After finishing the work, he started working here. Seeing that there was still some time before dinner, the man thought about getting some bamboo shoots.
The most rare bamboo shoots are winter bamboo shoots. The bamboo shoots are green and tender and taste good. Unfortunately, they are small and few. Inexperienced people can't dig out a few in a long time and often damage the bamboo roots. Only after the death of Grandpa Li Feng, the Li Feng family rarely eats winter bamboo shoots.
, the most numerous are spring bamboo shoots and summer bamboo shoots, and now is the last season of summer bamboo shoots.
Li Feng originally thought it was not too late now, he should be able to find edible summer bamboo shoots, but he didn't expect to find edible summer bamboo shoots. Instead, he looked for a few tender and crisp new bamboos as thick as calves that had holes bitten by bamboo insects.
The weeds and vines have been cleaned up, and the bamboo forest is much cleaner. You can see everything clearly at a glance. The insect eyes buried under the branches and vines have leaked out. The insect eyes are mostly in the five or six bamboo joints from the bottom, which are fresh and tender.
The bamboo is delicate, and these bugs are the favorite. Li Feng hates these bugs so much that these bug-eyed calves are ruined and cannot be used as talents. Li Feng turned around and found four or five, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
Not much.
As for these bamboos, Li Feng swung his hatchet and Brother Quan chopped them down, tied four or five bamboos with thatch, and pulled them down the mountain.
"Hey, Xiaobao, what are you doing?" Lin Chengdong accompanied his wife, Teacher Jin. The two of them took cans and bottles while the weather was not too hot to catch green worms and grasshoppers on the hillside, planning to go back and feed the chickens.
young.
"Uncle Lin, Teacher Jin is catching bugs." Every afternoon these days, many old people in the bamboo house catch bugs with bottles on the hillside. Each family has a few chickens, so getting feed is a bit troublesome. No, Zhou
The teacher keeps a lot of small birds. He usually takes a bottle and runs around the house and back, and then there is food. The little pheasants are small birds by nature, and they are just right to feed caterpillars. Everyone sees this easy, every morning and evening,
Quan thought he was going for a walk and caught some bugs casually. Mr. Lin didn't want to fight with a group of people, because there were so many bugs in Li Feng, and the old couple were holding small bottles like children.
"No, my little guys are eating very hard. Over at the bamboo house, Fatty Jiang, Lao Cheng, and Lao Wang are all fighting over something. The two of us are noisy and noisy. By the way, Leilei...
Where is the child? Why haven't you seen me?" Usually at noon, Leilei was caught by the old couple taking a nap. Today, Leilei and Xiaoqing came to Li Feng's place to play. The old man was not worried. He didn't see his grandson when he came here.
Just ask casually.
"A few children went to the village to catch lobsters. Xiaoqing is following them. It's okay. By the way, Teacher Jin, you came just in time. There are some delicious food today. You can take some back." Li Feng laughed and patted the bundle behind him.
Bamboo.
"Good stuff? Can bamboo be eaten?" Teacher Jin was not here last time and was a little curious. He looked at Li Feng pulling a few pieces of bamboo. The bamboo was not big, but it was not edible. Let alone humans, the giant panda couldn't chew such a big piece.
Bamboo.
"Xiaobao, are you saying there are bugs in these bamboos?" Lin Chengdong was stunned for a moment, and then shouted in surprise. He remembered what happened last time clearly, and he didn't dare to eat it at first. Only after tasting it did he realize how delicious it was. Unfortunately, there were too few.
A child has occupied it. You say, why are you so embarrassed? The last few old people can only try it briefly, and they feel very regretful.
"Insects? Is this thing edible?" Teacher Jin looked at the insects of different shapes in the glass bottle in his hand, and his face changed slightly.
"Haha, this bug is not ordinary. Don't look at it at first sight. When it's done, it tastes really good. It's crispy, tender, and fragrant. It's also rich in nutrients and has a particularly high protein content. It's a rare good thing. Let's go, Xiaobao.
, hurry up and get it out, I'll let you try it tonight." Teacher Jin looked at his wife's eager look and felt a little surprised. His wife is not an impatient person. Besides, he has never seen anything in the world. He has eaten a lot of delicacies from mountains and seas. Why is he like this?
Will you be so anxious?
"You are not afraid of children's jokes." Teacher Jin rolled his eyes at Lin Chengdong angrily. The old man chuckled and helped Li Feng, and the two of them ran towards the small courtyard holding the bamboo.
Li Feng took out a big bowl from the yard, put it aside, and untied the bamboo. The bamboo was not big. Li Feng found the location of the wormhole. The wormhole in this bamboo was about ten centimeters long and one inch wide. It was a big wormhole. These vampires
All the nutrients of the entire bamboo are sucked away by these pests.
"Ah." Li Feng slashed at the wormhole bamboo joint. He cut the bamboo open and pried it hard. The entire bamboo joint was pried open, revealing a piece of white mist and sticky white foam inside. These things filled the entire bamboo joint.
.Densely packed small insects were squirming under the sticky white foam. Teacher Jin was so frightened when he saw it for the first time that his face turned pale. If Lin Chengdong hadn't been holding him up, he might have sat down on the ground.
"Xiaobao, why are there so many? Last time I got two, but there were not as many as this one." Lin Chengdong also felt a little numb when he saw it. Last time he split one section, there were three or two small bugs, which was good. There were so many.
There are only about a dozen of them, but there are hundreds of insects in this section.
The tender white bugs are plump and round. They look cute individually, but when they are squirming together in a group, anyone who sees them will feel numb on their scalp.
"I didn't expect that maybe bugs reproduce quickly in summer." Li Feng waved his knife and slashed a few times, splitting all the bamboo. Li Feng looked at the white and tender bugs stupidly, feeling a little dizzy. There were so many, three people
After cleaning for a long time, I made half a bowl, at least a pound.
Li Feng looked at the remaining bamboos and wondered if they should be kept for tomorrow. Forget it. Li Feng gritted his teeth, took the bamboos, and chopped them wildly, splitting several bamboos. Several people squatted on the ground, catching
After busying with insects for a long time, I collected a bowl of bamboo worm larvae.
"It's unimaginable that a small bamboo can grow so many insects. These bamboos are really strong." Teacher Jin looked at the split bamboos on the ground and sighed.
Li Feng shook his head and smiled bitterly. No matter how strong the life of bamboo is, with these pests, it will not wither in the end, but the people who grow it will suffer in the end. Sometimes the bamboo joints in a bamboo forest will wither, and at that time, you will not even have tears to cry.
"Uncle, we are back." Just as Li Feng was talking about how to pick up bugs and what seasonings to add to best preserve the deliciousness of the bugs, the excited voices of Leilei's children and Xiao Qing's complaints came from outside the peach forest.
"Ah, grandpa, grandma, you are here too, guess what we caught?" Leilei put his hands behind his back mysteriously, not knowing what he was hiding.
"What could it be? A cricket, or a big black dragonfly (dragonfly is dark green, about two-thirds larger than the average dragonfly, a favorite type of dragonfly for children), or an old buffalo?" Li Fengxin said that apart from these, there is nothing special now.
What a joke.
"Haha, uncle can't guess it. Look, we caught a big crab. Take a look." Mengmeng held up a small iron bucket and handed it to everyone to see. Li Feng stretched his head and took a look and was stunned to see such a big stone crab.
"Ah, what kind of crab is this? It's red and as big as the mouth of a bowl." Teacher Jin was stunned. If he hadn't seen the crab waving its big tongs, he would have thought it was a cooked hairy crab.
"Well, grandma, Mengmeng caught this. He caught it under a big rock. Only Mengmeng caught it. Sister Lingdang, aunt and Leilei didn't catch it." Mengmeng proudly puffed out her little chest.
, didn’t care at all that Xiao Qing was staring at him fiercely, this girl was so bold. When Xiao Qing saw such a crab at first, she was so frightened that she stepped back. Only this girl, without saying a word, grabbed the small iron bucket and threw it into her.
inside.
Xiaoqing slapped her hard several times because of this, but the girl didn't care at all. She carried the small iron bucket around the river bend and showed it to others proudly.
"Huh, what's this? Isn't it just a crab? Grandpa, grandma, Uncle Li, look what I caught." Leilei said, holding out a can. Inside were two scorpions with large pincers and tail hooks.
The front abdomen is soft and plump, the rear abdomen is slender, the claws are oblong, and the body color is brownish red. The other front abdomen is slender, and the rear abdomen is thick and powerful. The claws are round and appear stout, and the ctenoid organ is long.
They are bright green and yellow, and are smaller in size. Li Feng was stunned. Leilei turned out to be a pair of male and female scorpions. This was a bit rare. Scorpions usually like to live in the gaps between rocks. Most of the houses in the mountains are built on bluestone bases. The foundations are raised, and there is heavy humidity in the mountains.
, the houses are generally on the high side. The surrounding walls are made of piled stones. Some of them have not been touched for many years. There are many scorpions and centipedes inside. However, in the past few years, some people collected the things, small ones and big ones.
At that time, the whole village caught scorpions, but now everyone doesn't care about the money. Besides, there are few scorpions, not as good as lobsters, because cicadas can make money quickly.
"Scorpion? You kid, you don't want your life, throw it away." Teacher Jin was startled. Scorpions are one of the five poisons, and are more awe-inspiring than poisonous snakes in people's minds. When Teacher Jin saw his grandson, he actually took out
This thing turned pale with fright, and kept waving for Leilei to throw it away.
"I don't, grandma, you don't know that it took a lot of effort for me to catch them. Besides, they are in a bottle, so what's there to be afraid of?" Leilei pouted. This thing was taken by Erhai to open up someone else's yard.
After finally getting the stone out, the two children held it between branches and put it into the bottle. For this, Leilei gave the second child a dollar. How could it be possible for him to throw it away now?
"Why is Leilei talking to your grandma? This scorpion can sting. Ask your Uncle Li how it feels when it stings." Lin Chengdong was slightly startled. His grandson was afraid of snakes, insects, rats, and ants. How could he be so brave?
It's big.
"Really? Uncle Li?" Leilei really didn't know that this thing could sting people, but he just thought it was quite fun. It has pincers and a big tail. Isn't that what it looks like in the Scorpion King movie?
Li Feng smiled and introduced scorpions. Scorpions are completely carnivorous and can capture spiders, crickets, small centipedes, and larvae and nymphs of various insects. When scorpions feed, they use their tentacles to clamp the prey, and the hind abdomen (scorpion tail)
), bend forward of the body, and sting with the poisonous needle. The muscles outside the venom gland contract, and the venom flows out from the opening of the poisonous needle. The venom of most scorpions is enough to kill insects, but it is not fatal to humans.
The two East Asian pincer scorpions only cause severe burning pain, which is not fatal, but the pain is enough to keep you awake all night.
Although Li Feng has never tried it, he has seen it. He remembers that when he was in junior high school, the dormitory was very simple at that time. One night, a scorpion fell from the roof and landed on a student not far from Li Feng. It stung him.
I howled all night, and everyone in the room didn't sleep well. The next day I went to class with panda eyes. The teacher asked, and was shocked. I didn't go to class. I took this classmate to the hospital for a checkup, and finally got it.
Some potions. Nothing happened, but later the school cleaned up the dormitory and found four or five earth-spotted snakes, scorpions, and centipedes, which scared Li Feng to death and refused to live on campus.
